The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1887-03-18
MISSISSIPPI AWAKE.

Ed. GAZETTE:
DEAR SIR;- Wishing to inform
myself about your part Of the
country, am desirous of sample
number Of your valuable paper.
Please send the same to my adj
dress and oblige, Respectfully,
J. d. McLUCAs.
Washington, Washington County
March Sd 1857. Kansas.
The above. with many other
like enquiries, manifest the fact,
that the resources of Mississippi
and in fact 1.-THE new South are
making themselves known through
out every quivering nerve of this
vast Sisterhood Of States, and ex-
tending TO the old world, and they
furnish evidence OF recuperative
energy, and material progress and
development by the Southern poo
pie, unexampled in the history of
our civilization; ia short, that
the new and mightier South is
Irapidly emerging from the blight
and desolationa 81 the civil war
and promises in a short time to
attain high degree of prosperity
This marvellous development can
be truthfully affirmed, not simply
or chiefly in respect to railway
transportation, or to mining or
manufacturers, but to every mates
rial interest Of the South and to
almost every section Of it. The
exceptional sections are those
which are Destitute of direct rail
way or water communication with
the markets ofthe world. These,
and these only, are yet to feel
the forces which quicken the slug
gish current Of tie old life. ana
these, no doubt, in comparative
ly short time viii hear the whirl Of
wheels that weave the web OF
towns. An investigation of the
true inwardness of the compara-
tive resources which have always
existed in the South, and paricu-
larly in South Mississippi, Will be
revelation to the country, even
to the Southern people themselves,
for they disclose a wealth of on
portunities for enterprise and IL
dustry which Is unparalleled. The
advantages Of the South for agri-
cultural pursuits, not simply for
the cultivation Of cotton, sugar
and rice, but for agricultural de-
yelopments IN all its branches, and
for manufacturing, for mining the
precious metals, for coal and iron
(Which are more substantial foun-
dations Of prosperity, for lumber
ing and for stock raising, are be-
ing appreciated by the people Of
other parts Of the Union. as man
ifested by the leading enquiry
hereto, and already thousands Of
enterprising immigrants from the
North and West, and millions and
even hundreds Of millions Of cap
ital are pouring into the Southern
States. The consummation for
which we deyoutly hope is that
when the year Of general jubilee
shall dawn upon the whole South,
our immediate section will not be
found to have been sitting supine-
ly, and like some men we wot of
in the army, waiting to See what
is going to happen" They may
like the wounded swallow be borne
on the strong wings OF the soaring
multitude for a while, but unless
they wake up and shake off their
lethargy, there will be ere long
a separation Of the strong wings
10 upper air, and the weak will
fall through, and linger behind III
the grand struggle for prosperity.
Pike. we think does snuff the bat
tie breeze afar. Magnolia. awake,
found your schools. your factories,
your congresses, your oil mills,
Tor your facilities arc az fine as in
any place on Gods green earth.